Animal products; . h has given much celebrity to this hand-some creature) are very peculiar. It is, in fact, the tooth, andthe only one it possesses in general : the fellow tooth, however,exists within the bone of the jaw, but undeveloped. It is usuallythe left tooth that projects. Its principal use appears to be topierce and kill its prey, such as large skates and other fishes. This ivory sword is seldom used for manufacturing the year ending March, 1875, the Greenland Company col-lected 457 lbs. weight of Narwhal horns which were valued at^75-? 392 HORN OF THE NARWHAL. The flesh
Animal products; . h has given much celebrity to this hand-some creature) are very peculiar. It is, in fact, the tooth, andthe only one it possesses in general : the fellow tooth, however,exists within the bone of the jaw, but undeveloped. It is usuallythe left tooth that projects. Its principal use appears to be topierce and kill its prey, such as large skates and other fishes. This ivory sword is seldom used for manufacturing the year ending March, 1875, the Greenland Company col-lected 457 lbs. weight of Narwhal horns which were valued at^75-? 392 HORN OF THE NARWHAL. The flesh is much esteemed by the Greenlanders andEsquimaux, who eat it dried and smoked, and employ certainparts of the intestines for making strong cords; the tusks areused by them for pointing the extremity of their arrows and har-poons. The horn of the Narwhal has been sometimes obtained tenfeet long; it is spirally striated throughout its whole length, andtapers to a point. It was once in high repute for some supposed. NARWHAL AND POLAR BEAR. medicinal properties. The narwhal is occasionally, though notvery often, found with two of these horns or tusks, sometimes ofequal, at others of unequal length. About ioo tons of these areoccasionally imported in a year to Denmark from the Arctic seas,under the misnomer of sword-fish horns. There is said to bea magnificent throne in Denmark made of this ivory, which ispreserved with great care in the castle of Rosenburg. Among the collection of ivory on the east wall, there are fourtusks of the narwhal, one six feet eight inches long, and another DOLPHIN AND PORPOISES. 393 divided to show the section of the interior ivory. There is also awalking-stick carved from it, a turned walking-stick of the bone ofa whale, and a native weapon of similar substance from NorthWest America. In Case 140 is a sample of tanned whale skin. In Cases 171 and 172 are sections of teeth of the sperm-whale,and some carved. The Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) has at
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